Welcome to the July 2020 issue of The Otonomist. We made our new OtoCo product the starter and main course of this issue to mark the launch on the Ethereum mainnet of our onchain Delaware company assembler. As a dessert, we suggest some summer reading. Have a great holiday!
– Han, Founder & CEO, Otonomos
PRODUCT UPDATE
OtoCo is Live! You Can Now Instantly Form a Real-World LLC Using Your Ethereum Wallet
OtoCo: Get a free Delaware LLC in seconds.
After setting up hundreds of legal entities for our clients by paper filing, we thought there had to be a better, cheaper and faster way to get incorporated.
OtoCo is the result and our first product, a Delaware LLC, is now live on the Ethereum main net, with the Wyoming LLC following shortly.
With OtoCo, you can now create a real-world Delaware LLC using your Ethereum wallet, instantly and FREE (until 1 September)!
UNBOUNDED THINKING
Living Our Own Gospel: How We Plan to Decentralize OtoCo's Governance
OtoCo’s governance structure: A linear transmission mechanism of tokenholders’ wishes.
In this issue’s second post on OtoCo, we share how we plan to eat our own cake on governance and put the project in the hands of all stakeholders.
We hope our onchain and offchain decentralized governance design and revenue sharing token can become a template for other projects.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT OTONOMOS…
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About OtoCo: Documentation and FAQs
We have extensively documented our research and engineering on OtoCo on our GitBook, including links to our code repositories and legal agreements.
We’re also continuing to populate our FAQs section.
We’ll be using (West Coast) summer to finalize our token design and legal setup whilst further growing our user base and the wider OtoCo community.
So expect an announcement in September together with all detail on the OtoCo token sale and timing.
Meantime, feel free to chip in by joining our Road to OtoCo Telegram group or follow us on Twitter @Otonomos.
FOUNDER’S NOTES
Our Summer Basket of Books
To helps us stay away from the social media feeds over Summer, we prepared a basket of books, some recent, some long idling on our library shelf:
- We plan to feast on (meta-)maths over summer, starting with our yellowing copy of Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (2006) by Rebecca Goldstein, Edward Frenkel’s Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (2014), and Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation (2017) by Michael Harris, the latter a counterpoint of sorts to G.H. Hardy’s 1941 A Mathematician’s Apology.
- We also have Volume 1 of Gareth Loy’s reference work Musimathics, The Mathematical Foundations of Music on Music and Math in our hamper, which should go well with Hans David’s 1972 J.S. Bach’s Musical Offering: History, Interpretation and Analysis.
- To change the palette we added some political reading, hoping to finally get to read Life and Death in Shanghai, Cheng Nien’s first-hand account of China’s cultural revolution, a book that is now probably banned in Hong Kong…
- A different and more recent flavor of potential political oppression comes from The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch (2020) by Laura DeNardis, which touches on concerns many in the blockchain and wider internet community share around privacy and political power through technology.
- If the summer is long I hope to skim through John Bolton’s The Room Where it Happened which promises a revealing insider account of one of the most dysfunctional White Houses ever, this time written by somebody with impeccable Republican credentials.
- Finally, Henry Holt’s Around the World in Six Years: My mostly solo circumnavigation in a 35 foot sailboat should have plenty lessons from the sailing world that can be applied in business.
Let me know what you are reading over summer to han@otonomos.com.
Next month: In your inbox mid-August, The Otonomist will have a special guest author, a piece on the hidden centralization resulting from cross-shareholdings in America’s public companies, and an OtoCo progress report.
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